Kingston High Partnership with [email protected] and Bard College Helping Teens “Take Charge of Their Educations and Their Futures”

Since first partnering with [email protected] and Bard College in 2015, students at Kingston High who participated in the program have “achieved an overall graduation rate of over 90%,” writes the Daily Freeman. [email protected], founded at Bard by Dariel Vasquez ’17 and Harry Johnson ’17, partners with institutions to improve the educational outcomes of young men of color through their “Our Space” methodology. At Kingston High, high school students are matched with current Bard students as mentees “to foster academic persistence as well as positive identity and character development.” With the success of the program, [email protected] and Kingston High hope to expand their offerings to create a “brotherhood-bridge-program” for seventh and eighth graders “to receive support, mentoring, and guidance before they enter high school.”

Post Date: 02-14-2023